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WEDLOCK
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The state of being a married couple voluntarily joined for life (or until divorce)
Example:
God bless this union
Synonyms:
marriage; matrimony; spousal relationship; union; wedlock
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("wedlock" is a kind of...):
marital status (the condition of being married or unmarried)
Domain category:
jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wedlock"):
bigamy (the state of having two spouses at the same time)
common-law marriage (a marriage relationship created by agreement and cohabitation rather than by ceremony)
endogamy; inmarriage; intermarriage (marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law)
exogamy; intermarriage (marriage to a person belonging to a tribe or group other than your own as required by custom or law)
marriage of convenience (a marriage for expediency rather than love)
misalliance (an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage))
monandry (the state of having only one husband at a time)
monogamousness; monogamy (the practice or state of having only one spouse at a time)
open marriage (a marriage in which each partner is free to enter into extraneous sexual relationships without guilt or jealousy from the other)
cuckoldom (the state of a husband whose wife has committed adultery)
polygamy (the condition or practice of having more than one spouse at a time)
sigeh (a Shiite tradition of temporary marriage permitted in Iran that allows a couple to specify the terms of their relationship; can last from a few minutes to 99 years)
